This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm: __set_page_dirty uses spin_lock_irqsave instead of spin_lock_irq to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-__set_page_dirty-uses-spin_lock_irqsave-instead-of-spin_lock_irq.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 227d53b397a32a7614667b3ecaf1d89902fb6c12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:04:28 -0800 Subject: mm: __set_page_dirty uses spin_lock_irqsave instead of spin_lock_irq From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 227d53b397a32a7614667b3ecaf1d89902fb6c12 upstream. To use spin_{un}lock_irq is dangerous if caller disabled interrupt. During aio buffer migration, we have a possibility to see the following call stack. aio_migratepage [disable interrupt] migrate_page_copy clear_page_dirty_for_io set_page_dirty __set_page_dirty_buffers __set_page_dirty spin_lock_irq This mean, current aio migration is a deadlockable. spin_lock_irqsave is a safer alternative and we should use it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: David Rientjes rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -654,14 +654,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mark_buffer_dirty_inode); static void __set_page_dirty(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping, int warn) { - spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); + unsigned long flags; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); if (page->mapping) { /* Race with truncate? */ WARN_ON_ONCE(warn && !PageUptodate(page)); account_page_dirtied(page, mapping); radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree, page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY); } - spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/mm-__set_page_dirty-uses-spin_lock_irqsave-instead-of-spin_lock_irq.patch queue-3.13/mm-__set_page_dirty_nobuffers-uses-spin_lock_irqsave-instead-of-spin_lock_irq.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html